The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-12
Literary Notes.

T. Wentworth Hiegnson's new book will be
Hints on Writing aud Speech making"
volume on Musical Analysis" by Prof. n.
c. Banister. will be published at an early date.
George Alfred Townsend's new novel will deal
with the administration of George Washington
Ten thousand copies of Stevenson's MERRY
Men" were sold within a week of it's publication
A little poem entitled Consider the Lilies"
by Mrs Harriet Newell Lodge, of this city, has
been gotten out in dainty shape by Coates
Brothers, of Cliftondale, Mass 1t i5Pn card
board, the sheets of which are tied together
with ribbon, and the outside page decorated
with hand painted flower. Its price in this
shape is 65 cents; it is also issued in several
different styles from Is cents to 80 cents each.
1t forms pretty Easter souvenir
DR. Alfred G. Stokes, of Trenton. N. j., has
rendered a valuable service to amateur students
of microscopy in the preparation OF work
which he is about to publish through Harper q
Brothers, under the title microscopy for Be-
ginners" His object has been to furnish to the
beginner in the of the microscope a volume
which will afford him in an interesting and in
tellicible, if not rigidly systematic, manner in
formation requisite to the profitable prosecution
of the study.
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons have just
added to their theoloeical books the entire list
of Hebrew and Semitic textbooks and
other works heretofore published by the
American Publication Society of Hebrew. Of
Chicago The most notable OF these publlea-
tons are the Hebrew grammars of Prof. Will
lam r. Harper, PHI D., of Yale University
which have been adopted in both Yale and Har-
ward universities, and are used in sixty seven OF
the colleges and seminaries Of America and
England
The latest thing in book advertising has been
| devised by French publishing firm. large
number of men walk in single file along the
most freqaented streets. apparently intent
on reading an open book, which they hold
out before them with both hands
so that the back of the book can
be seen. The public naturally wish to know the
title of work of such absorbing interest. and
find, looking, that it is newly published
| novel 1t is hardly necessary to add that several
of the hired men could not read a line OF it to
save their lives
"Haifa or. Life in Modern Palestine" is the re-
suit of the personal observation of the writer
during recent residence of three or four years
| in the Holy Land. 1t is the most distinct and
| interesting account yet published of the country
and its people, of the remains of antiquity to be
| found there, and of the questions which expor-
| ers called to consider regarding them. The
book has been edited by Mr.. Charles A. Dana.
who originally published its various chapters, in
| the New York Sun, in the form of letters. 1t
| will be issued in the course of few days. by
! Harper & Brothers. in New York, and by Will
| lam Blackwood g. Sons in Edinburgh.
| Mr. James Russell Lowelrs lecture on HRich-
ard ILL.," delivered on Washington's birthday. is
printed in the Critic of March 5. 1t caused a
| sensation in Chicago, it will be recolected. not
| so mucfs because it questioned Shakspeare's
authorship of the play. as because it was suhsti-
| tuted for a lecture on Practical Politics." In q
leading editorial the Critic collates the opinions of
| various eminent Shakspearians the subject
| of the poets relations to the play. The article
| is the work of a we'll known expert. who quotes
freely from Furpivall, Fleay Halliwell Phillips.
Gervinus, Dowden. Stokes, Augustus Hare and
the German critic. Oechelhauser. with whose de-
cison he substantially agrees The subject il
one of the most perplexing in the whole range
| of Shakspearian controversy.